Category: Awards and Honors

Category: Awards and Honors

Faculty and Staff Honored for Service, Teaching Excellence

Congratulations to the 2022 recipients of the Whitney R. Powers Award for Teaching Excellence, Faculty and Staff Award of Merit, and the Special Recognition of Extraordinary Service. These honors recognize faculty and staff’s ongoing commitment to service and teaching excellence during the 2021-2022 academic year. Professor Kaytlin Eldred is the recipient of the Whitney R. […]

Professor Jennifer Zuk Receives Hartwell Individual Biomedical Research Award

Jennifer Zuk, an assistant professor in Sargent’s Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences, has been selected to receive a 2021 Hartwell Foundation Individual Biomedical Research Award, which recognizes exceptional scientists pursuing “early-stage, innovative, and cutting-edge biomedical research,” to advance the health of children. One of only 10 awardees nationwide this year, Zuk was selected […]

Massachusetts Awards Harvard and Boston University $3 Million for Assistive Robotics and Wearable Technology Research

Project Aims to Boost Commercialization of Innovative Wearable and Med Tech Devices Harvard and Boston University have been awarded new grant of $3 million from the State House to support the development of next-generation robotics and wearable technologies. Researchers aim to improve the lives of people with neuro-motor impairments and to help individuals achieve ambitious fitness goals, […]

DPT Student Receives Ruth Hall Award from APTA of MA

Third-year Doctor of Physical Therapy student Akshat Mehta (Sargent ’22) received the 2021 Ruth Hall Award from the American Physical Therapy Association of Massachusetts (APTA MA). This award recognizes a physical therapy student who demonstrates the professional qualities of dedication and caring, exemplified in the physical therapy career of Ruth Hall who dedicated her career […]

Professor Quatromoni Awarded Honorary Membership in BU’s Scarlet Key Honor Society

Associate Professor of Nutrition and Health Sciences Department Chair Paula Quatromoni was inducted as an honorary member of Boston University’s Scarlet Key Honor Society. Recipients of the Honorary Scarlet Key Award are University alumni, faculty, staff, and other community members who have made substantial contributions to student life at Boston University. Honorary Scarlet Key selection […]

Professor Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon Named Inaugural MACE Fellow

Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Occupational Therapy Leanne Yinusa-Nyahkoon has been awarded an inaugural MACE Foundation Fellowship which supports critically-needed research opportunities for Black, Brown, and Indigenous female research scientists, medical doctors, and other healthcare professionals, whose research focus is American Black, Brown, and Indigenous women’s physical and maternal health, maternal mortality, and […]

SLHS Students Awarded ASHFoundation New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarships

The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s ASHFoundation awarded New Century Scholars Doctoral Scholarships to two Sargent College Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences PhD students: Kimberly Dahl and Hilary Miller. This scholarship recognizes strong doctoral candidates who demonstrate academic excellence and a commitment to a teacher-investigator career in the field of communication sciences and disorders. Kimberly Dahl is […]

Faculty Honored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association

Sargent College Dean and Professor Christopher Moore and Assistant Professor Jennifer Zuk were honored by the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) for their contributions to the professions of speech-language pathology and speech & hearing science. Moore received the Honors of the Association, the highest award ASHA bestows, for his distinguished contributions to the discipline of communication […]

Professor Cara Stepp Named New Speech Editor-in-Chief for JSLHR

Professor of Speech, Language & Hearing Sciences Cara Stepp has been named the new editor-in-chief for the Speech section of the Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research (JSLHR). Director of the Sensorimotor Rehabilitation Engineering Lab, Stepp’s research interests include improving the assessment and treatment of sensorimotor disorders of voice and speech as well as contributing […]

PT and Health Science Faculty Honored for Service, Teaching Excellence

Physical Therapy and Health Science faculty received the 2021 Whitney R. Powers Awards and Faculty Award of Merit, recognizing their ongoing commitment to service and teaching excellence during the 2020-2021 academic year. Professors Bria Dunham and Diane Heislein were honored with the 2021 Whitney R. Powers Award for Teaching Excellence. Recognizing outstanding members of the […]

Professor Simone Gill Named to AOTA Roster of Fellows

Associate Professor Simone Gill was named to the American Occupational Therapy Association (AOTA) Roster of Fellows for her contributions to innovative interdisciplinary science which advances motor performance skills. This honor recognizes AOTA colleagues who have made significant contributions to the profession of occupational therapy through knowledge, expertise, leadership, advocacy, and/or guidance. Gill directs the Motor […]

Professor Carrion and BUSM/BUSPH Colleagues Awarded CDC Grant to Reduce Burden of Parasitic Infections

Malwina Carrion, MPH, a lecturer in the Department of Health Sciences, is a co-PI on a new five-year cooperative agreement, with a maximum award of $1 million, from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to study Chagas disease. This is an interdisciplinary collaboration between Carrion and co-PI Dr. Natasha Hochberg, an associate professor at Boston […]

Virtual Alumni Awards Celebration, Oct. 3

Saturday, October 3, 2020 3 p.m. EST Remarks by Christopher A. Moore, PhD, Dean, Sargent College Awards Presented by Doris Orff (Sargent ‘57), Awards Committee Chair Review the program Award Recipients Professional Achievement Award Joshua R. Merson (Sargent ‘08) Colleen M. Schneck (Sargent ‘83, ‘89) Special Recognition Award Anne Barry Jolles (Sargent ‘76) Kristin E. Koch (Sargent ‘05) […]